CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 61.525 Aeronautical experience requirements for grant of private pilot licences--aeroplane category
CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 61.525
Aeronautical experience requirements for grant of private pilot licences--aeroplane category(1) An applicant for a private pilot licence with the aeroplane category rating must have at least 35 hours of aeronautical experience that includes:
(a) at least 30 hours of flight time as a pilot; and
(b) at least 20 hours of flight time as pilot of an aeroplane; and
(c) at least 10 hours of solo flight time in an aeroplane; and
(d) at least 5 hours of solo cross - country flight time in an aeroplane; and
(e) at least 2 hours of dual instrument time; and
(f) at least one hour of dual instrument flight time in an aeroplane.
(2) Any of the required aeronautical experience that is not completed as flight time as a pilot must be completed as simulated flight time in an approved flight simulation training device for the purpose.
(3) The cross - country flight time required by paragraph (1)(d) must include a flight of at least 150 nautical miles during which a full - stop landing is made at each of 2 aerodromes not within the flight training area for the aerodrome from which the flight began.
(4) The flight time in an aeroplane required by subregulation
(1) must be completed in a registered or recognised aeroplane.